Coram Boy Quotes & Sayings

Transformation is always an inside-out process. — Heidi DuPree

When it comes to love
we are primates breaking sticks
while pointing to our hearts. — Atticus Poetry

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society. — Majid Kazmi

Be a Bible man, go so far as the Bible, but not an inch beyond it. Though Calvin should beckon you, and you esteem him, or Wesley should beckon, and you esteem him, keep to the Scripture, only to the Scripture! from the Sermon: Infallibility - Where To Find It and How To Use It — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What Vera doesn't know is: I'd kill to be a pickle on her Big Mac - ground to relish between her perfect white teeth.
I'd kill to be a bug she squishes with her holey Army-issue combat boot.
But she's too good for me. She always was. — A.S. King

May we not be ashamed to be old fashioned and to be thought fanatical. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him. — Stefan Zweig

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it. — Natsuki Takaya

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig